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University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Sociology Department, Faculty Publications Sociology, Department of 2004 Hull-House Maps and Papers Mary Jo Deegan University of Nebraska-Lincoln, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sociologyfacpub Part of the Family, Life Course, and Society Commons, and the Social Psychology and Interaction Commons Deegan, Mary Jo, "Hull-House Maps and Papers" (2004). Sociology Department, Faculty Publications. Paper 321. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sociologyfacpub/321 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Sociology, Department of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Sociology Department, Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Deegan, Mary Jo . 2004. "Hull-House Maps and Papers." Pp. 386-387 in Poverty;11 the UIIUed States: All ElIeycloped;a ojH;story, PolU;cs, and Pohey, Vol. I , edited by Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O'Connor. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. Hull-House Maps and Papers _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ Hull .. House Maps and Papers Hull-House Maps and Papers (HHMP) was a groundbreaking text published in 1895 by the residents of Hull House, led by Jane Addams and Florence Kelley. They described and measured group patterns associated with immigrants, working conditions, specific laborers, labor unions, social settlements, and the function of art in the community. Women's moral agency was central to their use of social science to improve democracy and the lives of the disenfranchised. Charles Booth's seventeen-volume study Life and Labour of the People in London (1892-1902) served as the model for HHMP. HHMP, in tum, became the model for studies of African American communities. Isabel Eaton, a young Quaker who had published a chapter in HHMP, helped make this cOlmection through her association with W. E. B. Du Bois on The Philadelphia Negro 386 (1899). Other African American scholaractivists, notably Monroe Work and Richard R. Wright Jr., were inspired by this latter book to map life in other African American communities. Hull House residents continued to map cultural, social, political, and demographic information in their neighborhood for the next forty years. As the neighborhood was increasingly studied (for example, by occupations, family size, housing, milk quality, food use, and epidemiology), the findings were charted and hung on the walls of Hull House for the neighbors to see and discuss. The mapping of social and demographic characteristics of a population within a geographical area became the core methodology of sociologists at the University of Chicago during the 1920s and 1930s. Acknowledgment that this methodological technique was associated with Hull House residents is singularly lacking in academic sociology. The Hull House residents' empirical studies also helped establish the major topics for academic sociology from the 1890s until the present. The use of mapping by Hull House residents was radically different from its scholarly use by white male sociologists of the Chicago schooL The academics' maps revealed the lives of the people of the neighborhood to an audience of experts and decision makers. The Hull House maps revealed to the people of the neighborhood that their lifestyles had patterns and implications that could be used to make more-informed decisions about community issues and interests. Repeatedly, the Hull House residents and neighbors initiated major social changes as a result of this information; for example, they worked to establish the eight-hour day, the minimum wage, and the elimination of child labor. They also worked in numerous social movements, for labor unions, women's suffrage, and arts and crafts. Mary }o Deegan See also: Hull House; Poverty Research; Settlement Houses _____________________________________________________________________ Hunger References and Further Reading Booth, Charles. 1892-1902. The Life and Labour of tl1e People in London. 17 vols. London: Macmillan. Deegan, Mary Jo. 1988. Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School, 1892-1920. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books. -----.2002. Race, Hull-House, and the University of Chicago. Westport, CT: Praeger. Du Bois, W E. B. [189911967. The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study. Together with a Special Report on Domestic Service by Isabel Eaton. New York: BenjaminBlom. Hull House, Residents of. 1895. Hull-House Maps and Papers. New York: Crowell. / 387